History A-Level
Legal dismantling of apartheid
What Legal dismantling of apartheid means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The removal of apartheid laws such as the Group Areas Act and Population Registration Act, which removed legal pillars but did not end inequality.
Topics that use Legal dismantling of apartheid
- Paper 2, Option 2F.2: South Africa, 1948–94: from apartheid state to ‘rainbow nation’ - 4 The end of apartheid and the creation of the ‘rainbow nation’, 1984–94 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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